Stephen Mason, an ex-pat Englishman, decides to turn his back on monogamous relationships and explore his submissive side in post-handover Hong Kong at the start of the century. Acting out his masochistic fantasies with several willing female partners, including the mysterious Aioko, an erotic, dominating woman who is also the lost little girl of Stephen’s fantasies. But his plans soon go awry when he falls in love with her, the one partner he can never have…

This is a modern saga of love, friendship, sex and sexuality.